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A victim of ethnic lashes in Sondu recuperating at Sigowet sub-county Hospital. [Nikko Tanui, Standard]
Leader of Majority in the Senate Aaron Cheruiyot has called for the immediate transfer of all police officers in the Sondu area, following ethnic clashes reported on the Kericho- Kisumu border in the last two days.
In a statement on Thursday, October 5, Cheruiyot who is also the Kericho Senator says the Inspector General of Police Japheth Koome and the Interior Cabinet Secretary Kithure Kindiki should transfer the men in uniform for "laxity and failing to stop the attacks" that have left several people dead.
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